Salman Rushdie Quotes

If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

If you're a fan of anything I do, I'm always telling a story. I'm into that - I like it when you don't know if it was true or not.

When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same.

A tale in everything.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.